Ambition and the single woman, Facebook fights the pay gap and other top gender stories of the week

Facebook to train 10,000 female business owners to bridge UK gender gap. (The Independent)

Single women play down career ambitions in front of single men. (World Economic Forum)

Ivy League has a gender pay gap problem. (The Atlantic)

Women on boards: The trend is upwards, but progress is slow. (CIO Today)

Want to close the gender gap? There’s an app for that. (HBR.com)

A new Arkansas law allows husbands to sue their wives for having abortions. (Quartz)

An extra day off a month for period pain? Zambia says ‘yes’. (Quartz)

The first black woman president is elected to the Harvard Law Review. (Harvard Law Today)

7 myth-busting reasons we should invest in women. (World Economic Forum)

If we truly want to change the world, we need more female leaders. (World Economic Forum)

Sexual harassment common even for Iraqi women professionals. (Al-Monitor)

How economic realities in Saudi Arabia can benefit women. (Knowledge@Wharton)

Women may never make up half of the US workforce. (Pew Research Centre)

Lebanese women demand 30 percent quota in parliament seats. (Albawaba)

Inclusive growth: More aspiration than action. (World Economic Forum)

There’s a gender education imbalance in Lesotho. And it’s in favour of girls. (Ozy)

‘That’s not good enough’: Reserve Bank of Australia governor vows to hire more women. (Sydney Morning Herald)

When will regions close the economic gender gap?

Source: The Global Gender Gap Report 2016, World Economic Forum

Quote of the week

“It's the qualities that women bring to the workforce — not better than the men, but somewhat different than the men — where our holistic decision making, our risk awareness, our relationship orientation skills that we tend to bring are becoming actually more valuable going forward, not less valuable.”

Sallie Krawcheck
Chair, Ellevate Network
Interview, CNBC, January 2017